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Show 'I 04 and Crarities 1‘12 the Weft-Indies. A Relation of the Spanilh [tip/ages pretences that they confult nothing but the King's intercit, and the Glory of God in all they do while tis mloil: apparent, they are continually rob: bmg theng, and that with impunity and are always dilhonouring God and Religion by,their criminal and fcandalous Practices. 1 hat which next follows is a Fragment of a Letter of a certain Perfon who accompanied the Spamtzrd: in their Voyages and lournies giving an account of their Actions in the various ,places through which they pafs‘d: Bttt this Letter being deficn'd to be fent With other Papers, he that made thp the Packets loft feveral Pages of it which contain7d very remarkable and extraordinary things concerning the Actions of the Spaniardt. This Fragment l fend you 15 the Body of the Letter, the beginning and end of I 0; To that ‘they were foon reduc'd to extreme want; merely ‘many were found dead in the Highways nd ‘with Famine. There were alfo above ten thoufa ‘ofthofe Indians the Spaniards took to carry their all ‘Baggage, that died on the Coafts: for almoil: ‘that went any dii'rance from the Sea were kill'd ‘with the exceilive Heat they met with on the Con- ‘tinent. This fame Captain following the Preps of ‘fiolm Ampudicz, fent before him two Indians whom ‘he had taken in the Province of Qgitom'a, to difco‘ver the Villages and Towns that were in their way, ‘and where any Booty was to be got; thefe Indians ‘were either his own Slaves, or thofe of his Soul‘diers, Tome of whom had two or three hundred ‘Slaves a Man, and others more or leis, as they had ‘more or lefs Baggage and Provilions to carry. which .are both wanting. However feeinty that which it contains deferves the notice oi‘ the Piiblicl' ‘Thefe Indians return'd to their Mailer, together lthought meet to print it, and hope the View of ii ‘And in thefe Expeditions all forts of Cruelties were :committed upon Women and Children. They did cthefame in the Province of sz'tonizz, they fir'd ttheir Houfes wherever they came, and burnt all ‘the.Stores of Corn the Indians had. And to {hew will produce the fame eli'ec": of moving you to com- miffirate the Calamities of the poorblndiam, as l ixhgvuenhgstiiimqm ample Relation l have given you ted Ch .fire t me And eonfequently that your won. arity w ill exCIte 1n your Minds an ardentde_ f . as in Zgfilfieiand reéhfy all thofe thorders as much ‘w1thl‘uch others as they could bring away with 7em. Ltheir fpitethe more, as if all this Mii‘chief had ‘been too little, they kill'd their Cattel only for Lthe Suet and Marrow, having no occafion for the flab; Only the Indians who attended the Spaniards ‘m thefe Expeditions ate the Livers, that being one ‘ff their printipal Dilhes. 'Tis fearce to be be- The Fragment. l theft: India;15 to ‘ be chain'd {Blesfaptam 9Tder'd done, ‘and he can" d dyes, which was prefently him great numbers at ‘ Men and Ville. away With, Whole L ieved what numbers of Cattel they kill‘d here ', ‘they deftl‘oy'd above a hundred thoufiind after this , ‘mann‘er only for the Fat and Livers, and To made ‘ County ‘Whltlt brought fuch aFamine and MiiEry upon the w Omen 1" (33131955 f0 that the a Defert. They ‘ took aiiiq aSllfoon turnd Into c tnrcs ha'i y adthe Cr0p 0f Corn thefe poor Crea31ft? they had laid up for ' an Whatever ‘the ful‘i‘ nuttence at their Families, by which means ‘ they ‘tlléhountry defolate by this needlefs hatghter, ‘lnhabitants, that they died for want of Food: (gheybehdes carried away out of this Provinc all e Corn they did not burn 5 To that tho the Coum ‘ f ‘2 L‘. If. |